It was the first broadbill caught on sporting tackle that was ever brought into an Alabama port. From Wordnik.com. [What game animal (or fish) are you proudest of taking? It could be the first, the biggest, or the toughest.] Reference
But to them fish by day, The old salts say “Nay,” “A broadbill in the sunshine, yeah right!”. From Wordnik.com. [Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest] Reference
Catching a broadbill swordfish is considered one of the most significant achievements of a big-game angler. From Wordnik.com. [The Key To Catching Swordfish] Reference
After half an hour of listening, I manage to find an African broadbill that has been singing only a few feet from me in a riverine thicket that seems to go on forever. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
The beautiful, bright green African green broadbill (Pseudocalyptomena graueri, VU), the sole representative of a monotypic genus, is found in only three sites in the Rift. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane] Reference
Bill Chaprales throwing a harpoonlike device from the pulpit of a “stick” boat (photo), meaning one more commonly used in harpooning giant bluefin tuna or, historically, broadbill swordfish. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod Great White Travels to Jacksonville] Reference
Eurylaimidae Whitehead's broadbill Calyptomena whiteheadi. From Wordnik.com. [Borneo montane rain forests] Reference
It wasn't so long ago that there weren't a lot of broadbill swordfish left anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [ESPN.com] Reference
The 65-pound broadbill he boated after a 30-minute fight wasn't big by swordfish standards, but it was huge in terms of proving a point. From Wordnik.com. [ESPN.com] Reference
Gaspeny and the Stanczyk soon learned that fighting a broadbill with an 8 - to 15-pound weight attached to it made the job exponentially more difficult. From Wordnik.com. [ESPN.com] Reference
Overharvest in the 1980s by longliners led to protected status in the '90s, and now multiple broadbill hookups are fairly routine during a day-long charter. From Wordnik.com. [ESPN.com] Reference
If Gaspeny hadn't caught that first swordfish on his first drop, it's likely that the burgeoning recreational broadbill fishery off south Florida wouldn't have been discovered. From Wordnik.com. [ESPN.com] Reference
The trend was less severe for birds, but still included creatures like the green-colored Hose's broadbill of Malaysia and Indonesia, which has suffered declines in its forest habitat. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
It's difficult to imagine that fish almost a third of a mile under the surface, suspended in 38-degree water, would be affected by lightning and rain, but Stanczyk says stormy weather shuts down the broadbill bite. From Wordnik.com. [ESPN.com] Reference
FROM THE JOURNALS OF JOHN CHEEVER … “The Sixities” (1961) “A story by Hemingway, most of which involves a young man’s fourteen hour fight with a thousand-pound broadbill. From Wordnik.com. [john cheever | fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
The reel’s giant spool looks sparse at the moment, though, because at the other end of the quarter mile of line leading from the rod tip and practically straight down from the transom is, we hope, a big broadbill swordfish. From Wordnik.com. [The Mid-Life Slam] Reference
IN ZAMBIA IN JANUARY, IN A THICKET THAT SEEMS TO RUN THROUGH the whole of Africa, and just after I untangle the notes of a marshmallow-frog-jumper or African broadbill, I hear a sprosser, or thrush nightingale, the nearest relative of Keats’s bird. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
Among these are the Ruwenzori tauraco Musophaga johnstoni, Sassi's olive greenbul Phyllastrephus lorenzi, Bedford's paradise flycatcher Terpsiphone bedfordi, Lioptilis chapini, Grauer's green broadbill Pseudocalyptomina graueri (VU), Rockefeller's sunbird Nectarinia rockefelleri (VU), Grauer's warbler Bradypterus graueri (VU) and Shelley's crimsonwing Cryptospiza shelleyi (VU; also the Congo peacock Afropavo congensis. From Wordnik.com. [Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo] Reference
State record broadbill swordfish. From Wordnik.com. [What game animal (or fish) are you proudest of taking? It could be the first, the biggest, or the toughest.] Reference
The broadbill swordfish is a great game fish and lots of boats go out after them now. ". From Wordnik.com. [ESPN.com] Reference
Wattled broadbill. From Wordnik.com. [Mindanao-Eastern Visayas rain forests] Reference
Visayan wattled broadbill. From Wordnik.com. [Mindanao-Eastern Visayas rain forests] Reference
Other birds of interest include black-necked stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus, lesser adjutant stork Leptoptilos javanicus, Pallas's fish eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus, grey-headed fish eagle Icthyophaga icthyaetus, crested serpent eagle Spilornis chela, perhaps 25-30 Bengal florican Houbaropsis bengalensis, swamp partridge Francolinus gularis, grey peacock-pheasant Polyplectron bicalcaratum, great pied hornbill Buceros bicornis, green imperial pigeon Ducula aenea, silver-breasted broadbill Serilophus lunatus, the rare blackbreasted parrotbill Paradoxornis flavirostris, slenderbilled and striated babblers Turdoides longirostris, and T. earlii, chestnut-capped and marsh babblers Timalia pileatea and Pellorneum palustre, and Jerdon's bushchat Saxicola jerdoni. From Wordnik.com. [Kaziranga National Park, India] Reference
Mountain serpent-eagle Spilornis kinabaluensis Phasianidae Red-breasted partridge Arborophila hyperythra Phasianidae Crimson-headed partridge Haematortyx sanguiniceps Podargidae Dulit frogmouth Batrachostomus harterti Trogonidae Whitehead's trogon Harpactes whiteheadi Capitonidae Mountain barbet Megalaima monticola Capitonidae Golden-naped barbet Megalaima pulcherrima Capitonidae Bornean barbet Megalaima eximia Eurylaimidae Whitehead's broadbill Calyptomena whiteheadi Pachycephalidae Bornean whistler Pachycephala hypoxantha Turdidae Everett's thrush Zoothera everetti Turdidae Fruit-hunter Chlamydochaera jefferyi Muscicapidae Eyebrowed jungle-flycatcher Rhinomyias gularis Zosteropidae Black-capped white-eye Zosterops atricapillus Zosteropidae Pygmy white-eye Oculocincta squamifrons Zosteropidae Mountain black-eye Chlorocharis emiliae Sylviidae Bornean stubtail Urosphena whiteheadi Sylviidae Friendly bush-warbler Bradypterus accentor Timaliidae Sunda laughingthrush Garrulax palliatus Tim. From Wordnik.com. [Kinabalu montane alpine meadows] Reference
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